Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Science fiction task force

Welcome to the Science fiction & Novels task force of the Novels WikiProject! & Science Fiction WikiProject!

Scope

This task force seeks to create, improve, maintain, and provide a standard of consistency for articles about Science fiction novels, novellas, novelettes & short stories as well as create a forum in which interested editors can work together to improve articles.

Participants

If you are interested in becoming a regular contributor to the efforts of this task force, please feel free to sign your name below with four tildes (~~~~). Also, if you have not already done so, we would encourage you to join our parent projects, WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Science Fiction.

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24. Fabartus (talk · contribs), joined in spirit long ago (16 March 2006)[1] as prime force in 1632 series
    but with 26 works (in 7.5 years, and counting) time is at a premium! // FrankB
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Guestbook

If you are sympathetic to the cause of this project, but for whatever reason choose not to commit yourself to becoming a regular member, please feel free to show your support by signing the list below!:

1. Frankesko (talk · contribs), 24 November 2007
2. Tbmorgan74 (talk · contribs), 4 February 2008 (UTC)
3. Lady Aleena (talk · contribs), 1 April 2008
4. EshInoBi (talk) 20:57, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
5. mesmacat (talk · contribs), 15 February 2009
6. The-Dixie-Flatline (talk) 23:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
7. --Airplaneman (talk) 00:35, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
8. Grey Shadow | Talk 22:18, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
9. markjoseph125 (talk · contribs), 16 August 2009
10. Refrigerator Heaven (talk) 10:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC) Please see the new section I've added to the talk page.
11. I might decide to join Winner 42 ( Talk to me! ) 14:06, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
12. Mukkakukaku (talk · contribs) - Generally speaking, engineers should not write articles about novels; in the case of sci-fi I'll make an exception....
13. Joydoc (talk) 20:30, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
14. AfroThundr3007730 (talk) 05:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
15. Thnidu (talk) 05:00, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
16. Dennyneanderthal (talk · contribs), 4 March 2019
17. John Bullock (talk) 09:58, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Tagging articles

Any article related to this task force should be marked with "sf-task-force=yes" to the {{WikiProject Novels}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Science fiction novels task force articles.

The resulting code is usually:

{{WikiProject Novels
|class=
|importance=
|sf-task-force=yes
}}

To-do

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Tag articles!
• Recruit more members!
• Collaborate and join the discussions. If you know things, teach! (If you don't know things, Ask.)
• Add new articles! There are plenty of science fiction novels and shorter prose items still unaccounted for! Needed Articles
• Expand articles (or merge if appropriate). All of these these stubs would welcome further care and attention.
• Start looking for featured articles and lists while getting familiar with and helping with assessment of prose fiction articles. Then add an "Articles" section to this project page.
• Add articles for books in The Year's Best Science Fiction series.
• Add info for Mike Ashley (writer).
• Flesh out Winston Science Fiction parent article, and corresponding articles on the individual novels in the set.
• Add things here!
• Split the Past Imperfect page. Past Imperfect was first a London play and second a science fiction book.
• Populate the Category:Space exploration novels

Literature Portal

The Literature Portal requires regular input and is always seeking volunteers. Help us keep this portal at Featured portal status!

Recognized content

Science fiction novels articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	4	4	1			10
FL		2					2
GA		4	10	9		3	26
B	6	10	29	50		5	100
C	2	11	42	99		206	360
Start		11	74	221		1,211	1,517
Stub			36	188		1,747	1,971
List		1	7	28		3	39
Category		1	1	1	380		383
Disambig					6		6
File					3,636		3,636
Project					7		7
Redirect			8	49	272		329
Template			1		73		74
Assessed	9	44	212	646	4,374	3,175	8,460
Unassessed						30	30
Total	9	44	212	646	4,374	3,205	8,490
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 21,203			Ω = 5.32

Featured articles

• Halo: Contact Harvest
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• Starship Troopers

Good articles

• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Ender's Game
• The Last of the Masters
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• The Myst Reader
• Sector General
• Skinner's Room
• World War Z

DYKs (Did You Know)s

• A fact from The Masks of Time appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on September 19, 2008

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

Categories and lists

• see Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Science fiction task force/Categories

Templates

• For main project templates, see the main project page.

Userbox Code	Userbox Result
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/User Science fiction task force}}	This user is a member of the Science fiction task force of the Novel WikiProject & Science Fiction WikiProject.